Saturday Place

We’d like to thank our Alumni Speaker for our 2026 graduation ceremony: Nautica Sandoval!

Nautica graduated from the Saturday Place program in 2018 and has recently graduated high school at UIC College Prep!

She will be attending University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign this fall and we cannot be more proud of her and all that she has accomplished!

Thank You Nautica for being an inspiration to the next generation of Saturday Place!

Saturday Place has real, proven benefits. Our students not only improve their academic performance, but maintain their improvements as they advance through higher grades.

Our students may arrive performing as the lowest in their classroom, however by the end of the academic year, our students minimally demonstrate:

📍Over 45% improvement in writing
📍Over 5% improvement in spelling
📍Over 10% improvement in reading comprehension
📍Over 20% improvement in math

An independent program evaluation of Saturday Place by Loyola University School of Education identified a wide range of benefit for students including:

– Improved academic performance and academic self-sufficiency.
– Student development in key social-emotional learning domains.
– Greater reading and math growth on national standardized tests among program alumni in 5th and 6th grades.
– Increased desire among students to attend college.
– Improved relationship skills at home and in school.
– Cultivation of a healthy sense of self-awareness and self-esteem.